The Feilding Star. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1882., SATURDAY NIGHT'S MEETING.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 16, 9 August 1882, Page 2

The Feilding Star. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1882., SATURDAY NIGHT'S MEETING.

Although the meeiing was not,numerously a.oendei!, yet it consisted; for the mo^t part, ef representative men. whose interests are deeply concerned in the question of facilities for nil way communication to the north and sourh. The resolutions passed, although anticipated by a similar meeting in Wanganui were such as must t.npress. ou the members who represent this section of the West Coast of the |[orth Island, the fact

that the people have awakened to a sense of their position, and are now determined that the gentlemen who have the honor to represent them in Parliament sh«ll remember who pnt them in tbe honorable pQ^itions^they bold as representatives of the people, and the duties they have undertaken to perform on behalf of their constituents. The meeting -vas the first of the kind ever held in Feilding, where an opportunity was given to everyone j for a flee and oursDoken expression of opinion on subjects which affected tbe inateriol prospects of the town and country districts. We were somewhat disappointed in the small number of speakers wbo adrlres&ed the meeting, ; but on the other hand what was said ' was to the point, and carried convic- , tion with it. The small attendance j of Councillors is accounted for by the ' fact of the meeting being heM on l Saturday night, but as the Mayor was anxious to avo ; d any unnecessary delay, be had no other course open to him than the one he adopted. We are quite satisfied that the Colonial Fn^ineer will pay not the slightest attention to the resolution respecting the erection of a suspension or wire bridge for temporary use. He will toss it into the waste paper basket, with a bmiie at the presumption of its authors. But we have every faith that tbe authors of that resolution will see at no late date the temporary bridge now in course of construction swept away by the first summer floods. If we are wrong in this for-, falling, so much the better. The resolution, asking the Government to defray tbe cost of carrying timber across the river, will share the same fare as the other one, a<* the Govern ment have plready stated they do not see their way to do this, and will give our worthy Mayor a civil reply to that effec . 1 bis the ...embers should be careful to prevent, by a system of continued pressure on tbe Ministry, forcing them to give a share of their attention to this much-neglected section of the Colony. As the continued dropping- of water will wear away the the hardest rock, we hope that a continued dunning will have the effect of our gaining some of the blessings so plentifully poured out on othar parts of the Colony, by a Government that is only, liberal under compulsion.